-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 David Shaw wrote: > Most of the storage media in use today do not have particularly > good long-term (measured in years to decades) retention of data. > If and when the CD-R and/or tape cassette and/or hard drive the > secret key is stored on becomes unusable, the paper copy can be > used to restore the secret key. If you have the passphrase but the > secret key that it encrypted was on that bad CD-R, you have nothing > Aren't optical discs supposed to last for many decades if stored properly and almost never used?
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